Make Cash Back Monitor Even Better – What Feature is Missing? (Giveaway for $50 in Amazon eGift Cards)

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Update: Comments are now closed. I will go through all the comments and pick the top 5 suggestions. I will email the winners and send them each a $10 Amazon egift card. Thank you to everyone who participated in the giveaway.

Good morning again, I am writing this post on-board my Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Oakland. You may not recognize the gentleman standing next to me in the below photo, but I can almost guarantee that you have heard of his website and used his service. His name is Yansong and he is the creator and operator of Cash Back Monitor – the online shopping portal comparison tool. He is a very smart (well dressed) guy who knows the ins and outs of the online shopping portal world. We have become good friends over the years due to always running into each other at various travel conferences around the country.

In an unrelated note, I ran a contest a few weeks ago asking readers to tell me what features were missing from Award Wallet. I sent the post to my friends at Award Wallet and they really appreciated the feedback from readers. I believe they are working on a few new features that readers recommended. I asked Yansong if he would be open to doing the same thing with Cash Back Monitor and he agreed.

The giveaway is simple, what feature is missing from Cash Back Monitor that would make the service better for you and other users? Leave a comment on this post before 11:59pm PT on Tuesday, February 28, and I will select 5 winners on Wednesday morning. I will send each winner a $10 Amazon eGift Card code via email.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment below. Thank you to everyone who enters the giveaway and good luck. Have a great day everyone!

Please add how long it takes to confirm/track on the site. For example, I often will choose eBates over TopCashBack at a slightly lower rate because TopCashBack takes forever to confirm/track and then pay out.

It would be great if we can also see historic rate change for specific portal for example I might always use 3 or 4 portals and I need to see historic change for each merchant on that specific portal not among all

I would say CBM need to have a “popular portal” highlighted in green or blue colors so users could see which portal that most people use lately. People who play cashback already have a good sense to choose the portal that not only pays the most but reliable in payout and tracking. So it would be very helpful for the newbie or new visitor to see that color indicator to help them choose.

However, I do wish they would allow an indefinite alert which doesn’t end when it’s met. For example, if I’m a reseller, I want to know whenever Sears hits 10%. So I don’t want to have to reset that alert after it’s met one time. I want it to be an alert for all time that whenever the portal hits 10% I should get a notification.

My suggestions, yeah I have two, would be number one to include the websites of the Gift Card redemption’s! Number two the ability to offer an app or apps for Android, IOS, and even Window phone users, allowing even smoother transactions for all mobile users!! Love the site my friends!!

The site has been a Godsend and the best out there for a search. I agree with the above points. A No credit for 3rd party gift card exclusion symbol for we gift card gamers, A limited time boost symbol for the Airline Shopping Portals, And maybe a “Hot Store” alert on the homepage for the most searches. I never make a purchase without checking it first!

Well personally I don’t care about a bunch of the portals. For cash back I probably still want to see all of them though since I might just sign up for a particular good rate, even though there are often redemption thresholds and such that make it not-so-simple. But for rewards portals, if I don’t collect those points then they’re not much use to me. So if I could get it to do what I want, I’d simply tell it to exclude certain portals. It would be fine of course if these were simply sorted to the bottom of the list as well. In theory the “assign value to points” feature might do this, but as far as I can tell it doesn’t affect the sort, even if I assign a value of $0. Similarly assigning a reasonable value to Hilton, like 0.4, doesn’t sort it at 6HH/$ when the math should dictate that.

The other problem here is that it needs to be easy to stay logged in and preserve your settings. Right now it isn’t. The personal alerts page for example doesn’t even display in Firefox.

Also the limit of 10 alerts is w-a-y too small. Can I pay for an account with a higher limit? And/or quicker notification like hourly instead of daily or whatever?

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